Along time in both the making and in the decision process the Swansea Bay tidal lagoon has today apparently had its final rejection from the UK Government. This will not only be a great disappointment for the project’s supporters in Swansea itself but for its many supporters elsewhere, some of whom were pinning their hopes for similar projects to follow on from the presumed, eventual success of the Swansea bid. It seems highly likely that if the financial and other conditions can’t be achieved to make the Swansea project a reality, then conditions will not easily be met anywhere else within the UK, or at least not in the foreseeable future: